Tell America’s story

We live in a fractious society in desperate need of a conversation on values. The media could begin this process by bearing witness.

Future generations must know what occurred and how it all unfolded. They need to learn how disgruntled white Americans discovered a path to recover a country to which they felt entitled and that they believed had been lost.

Future generations must know about the evil that destroyed us as a nation after great men such as Lincoln and Roosevelt guided us through previous crises and kept our values intact. They will need to know and an engaged and moral media to tell them.

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Re Fabiola Santiago’s Dec. 14 column, “The ethics of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his lobbyist sons stink,” about my sons and my ethics: First, my son Carlos J. (C.J.) does not lobby Miami-Dade County government. He is a lawyer who was working in the government legal affairs field before I was elected mayor in 2011.

Yet he has not been active in any county business. Santiago initially included him as an active lobbyist in the online version of her column, then when advised that he is listed as “not active lobbyist” — as posted on the county website — she did not include the date of Jan. 27, 2011 that is listed as the last “inactive.”